It's exhausting to be reviewing boatloads of PRs of very varied quality
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Helped: Helped with professional and hobby projects involving unfamiliar skills.
Got in the way: Reviewing boatloads of PRs with varied quality and bad design.
… This is different, it's not a pressure to deliver anything specifically, no stupid deadlines, it's so much more vague than any other kind of work pressure I've been through in the past 20+ years that it makes it much harder to find ways to keep my head straight. It's exhausting to be reviewing boatloads of PRs of very varied quality. I have relegated myself to block merges at the first sign of a bad/weird design instead of trying to understand why it might have needed a compromise in the design, many times people couldn't even explain to me why something was written the way it was... …